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Title: Pearson Cobra
Post by: GreatBay on July 19, 2010, 12:57:00 PM

I saw a recently ended auction for a Pearson Cobra recurve and could not find anything on them in the archery archives. Does anybody know when they were produced?
Dave

Title: Re: Pearson Cobra
Post by: Migra Bill on July 19, 2010, 01:12:00 PM

I am familiar with the Pearson Compound that was called a Cobra- but not aware of a recurve.

Title: Re: Pearson Cobra
Post by: GreatBay on July 19, 2010, 02:17:00 PM

Bill- familiar with that as well- this was definitely a recurve, with green glass

Title: Re: Pearson Cobra
Post by: Gary Altstaetter on July 19, 2010, 09:53:00 PM

I was told that Pearson made the Colt Target
bows, and if a bow was a second it was labeled as a Cobra.  I have one of these bows.  It should be a Colt Heritage, but it is labeled as a Ben Pearson Cobra.  I have looked it over real good, but I cannot find any flaws in the wood or the construction of the bow.  It a very good shooting bow

Title: Re: Pearson Cobra
Post by: oldhickory on July 19, 2010, 10:04:00 PM

Ben Pearson made 2 models of the Cobra recurve, one was a one piece, the other is a take down.

Title: Re: Pearson Cobra
Post by: GreatBay on July 20, 2010, 08:06:00 AM

Thanks guys, it must have been a renamed Colt Huntsman Hi-Power from 1964 or 1966. I dug into the archery archives a little more and noticed that. I wonder what constituted a "second". This bow looked very similar to a Wing Presentation bow in style, and was only 56", so shorter than the Colt Heritage.